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Dear Harold,

Here is a review of Richard Blake's "Terror of Constantinople". It was
published in The Daily Telegraph on the 21st March 2009. Mr Blake has
been a good friend of the Libertarian Alliance over the years, and
anything that enriches him can be taken as a benefit to the libertarian
cause in England.

If you could pass this review to your friends or add to your blog, Mr
Blake will be most grateful - as shall I. It goes without saying that you
are invited to buy the book or order it from your local library. Mr Blake
is all signed up for public lending right.

Regards,

Sean


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The Terror of Constantinople
by Richard Blake
421pp, Hodder & Stoughton, £19.99

Buy now for £17.99 (plus £1.25 p&p) from Telegraph Books
<http://books.telegraph.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=978034095114
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"At first, the vain, amoral and sexually voracious exiled seventh-century
scholar Aelric seems purpose-built to fill a Flashman-shaped hole in wry
historical fiction.

"But Aelric is a killer, not a coward, surprisingly principled for a
scatological cynic and incapable of exploiting virtue if only because
there are no good guys in Richard Blake's portrayal of the political
rats' nest between the fall of Rome and the supremacy of the Roman Church.

"His plotting can seem off-puttingly anarchic until the penny drops that
everyone is simultaneously embroiled in multiple, often conflicting,
scams. Aelric's survival among the last knockings of empire in
Constantinople depends not on deducing who wants him dead, but who wants
him dead at any
given moment.

"Vivid characters, devious plotting and buckets of gore are enhanced by
his unfamiliar choice of period. Nasty, fun and educational."

--
Sean Gabb (away from home computer)
Director, The Libertarian Alliance
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